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The image here is NGC 4258. It is 23.5 million light years away, spans 60 thousand light years across, and can be seen w...
02/26/2023

The image here is NGC 4258. It is 23.5 million light years away, spans 60 thousand light years across, and can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici). A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is mostly composed of blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus. The core of M106 glows brightly in radio waves and X-rays where twin jets have been found running the length of the galaxy. An unusual central glow makes M106 one of the closest examples of the Seyfert class of galaxies, where vast amounts of glowing gas are thought to be falling into a central massive black hole.

Image Credit: NASA, ESO , NAOJ, Giovanni Paglioli; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari and R. Gendler

This is an image of UGC 12158, a beautiful barred spiral galaxy Barred spirals have spectacular swirling arms of stars t...
02/24/2023

This is an image of UGC 12158, a beautiful barred spiral galaxy Barred spirals have spectacular swirling arms of stars that emanate from a bar-shaped centre. Bar structures are quite common and can be found in about two thirds of spiral galaxies, and are thought to act as funnels, guiding gas to their galactic centres where it accumulates to form newborn stars. Astronomers think that the swirling spirals slowly disperse over time and eventually evolve into regular spirals.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

NGC 6572 is situated close to the celestial equator and, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in...
02/23/2023

NGC 6572 is situated close to the celestial equator and, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year. NGC 6572 is a fairly young nebula so its composition is still concentrated thus making it a magnitude 8.1. Bright enough to make it an appealing target for amateur astronomers with telescopes. It is located within the large constellation of Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer) and at low magnification it will appear to be just a coloured star, but higher magnification will reveal its shape. Some observers report that NGC 6572 looks blue, while others state that it is green.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

02/14/2023

Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away from Earth, located in the constellation Andromeda. It was first described in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in 1966. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, is about five times more massive than the smaller galaxy. The gravitational attraction created two misshapen spiral galaxies combine to form a beautiful celestial flower.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away from Earth, located in the constellation Androme...
02/14/2023

Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away from Earth, located in the constellation Andromeda. It was first described in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in 1966. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, is
about five times more massive than the smaller galaxy. The gravitational attraction created two misshapen spiral galaxies combine to form a beautiful celestial flower.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Pictured here NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, two large galaxies are colliding some 60 millionlight-years away from Earth, locate...
02/11/2023

Pictured here NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, two large galaxies are colliding some 60 million
light-years away from Earth, located in the southerly constellation Corvus. The expressive visual appearance of the extended arcing structures gives the galaxy pair its popular name - The Antennae. Spanning about 500 thousand light-years this image also reveals new star clusters and matter far away from the scene of the accident by gravitational tidal forces.

Credit: Subaru, NAOJ, NASA/ESA/Hubble, R.W. Olsen - Processing: Federico Pelliccia and Rolf Wahl Olsen

Appropriately known as a majestic design spiral galaxy, grand on a truly cosmic scale, NGC 4321 or M100. It is a large g...
02/10/2023

Appropriately known as a majestic design spiral galaxy, grand on a truly cosmic scale, NGC 4321 or M100. It is a large galaxy of over 100 billion stars, and a radius of 53,500 light years. NGC 4321 is well-defined spiral arms that is similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. It is one of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100 is 56 million light-years distant toward the constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices). It shows bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes which are hallmarks of this class of galaxies. Studies of variable stars in M100 have played an important role in determining the size and age of the Universe.

Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA - Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

This is the image of a magnificent starburst galaxy, NGC 3034 or Messier 82 (M82). This mosaic image is the harpest wide...
02/09/2023

This is the image of a magnificent starburst galaxy, NGC 3034 or Messier 82 (M82). This mosaic image is the harpest wide-angle view ever obtained of NGC 3034. The galaxy is remarkable for its bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds, and fiery-looking plumes of
glowing hydrogen blasting out of its central regions. It is approximately 12
million light-years away from Earth and is located in the constellation Ursa
Major. NGC 3034 is the second-largest member of the M81 Group.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA: https://buff.ly/3X987Lp

Pictured here is NGC 6611 or Eagle Nebula. It is composed of dazzling stars that formed about 5.5 million years ago and ...
02/07/2023

Pictured here is NGC 6611 or Eagle Nebula. It is composed of dazzling stars that formed about 5.5 million years ago and is found approximately 6500 light-years from the Earth. It is a very young cluster, with many hot, blue stars, whose fierce ultraviolet glow make
the surroundings glow brightly. The cluster and the associated nebula together
are also known as Messier 16. The dark patches are actually very dense regions
of gas and dust, that obstructs light from passing through.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this view of Jupiter in support of the New Horizons Mission. Jupiter is the largest i...
02/01/2023

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this view of Jupiter in support of the New Horizons Mission. Jupiter is the largest in the Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, while being slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. It has a radius of 69,911 km and orbital period of 12 years.

Credit: Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI)

This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows an expanding shell of glowing gas surrounding the Bubble Nebula or...
01/30/2023

This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows an expanding shell of glowing gas surrounding the Bubble Nebula or NGC 7635. The shell, composed of gas and dust is being shaped by strong stellar winds of material and radiation produced by the bright star at the left, which is 10 to 20 times bigger than the Sun. The NGC 7635 is 10 light-years across, more than double the distance from Earth to the nearest star. The glowing gas in the lower right-hand corner is a dense region of material that is getting blasted by radiation from the nebula's massive star. The radiation is eating into the gas, creating finger-like features. This interaction also heats up the gas, causing it to glow. Only part of the bubble is visible in this image.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Sedna is one of the most distant bodies that can be found in our solar system. At 8 billion miles (12.8 billion kilomete...
01/28/2023

Sedna is one of the most distant bodies that can be found in our solar system. At 8 billion miles (12.8 billion kilometers) away, it's hard to figure out things such as surface features, but one thing astronomers have been able to identify is Sedna's distinct reddish color. In 2004, it was described as the second-reddest object in our solar system, after Mars. It takes roughly 10,000 years to complete one circuit around the sun.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

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